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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. We started working on the new IP, and that's the game we announced the deal with Zynga on. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer. crawl.baidu.com";}. to 65.55.255.255 (131.107.0.0

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009).

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Interview with Kinetic Traction Systems

socalTECH

When their parent firm pulled up support for that company in 2004, they went out of business, but the technology and the IP lived on. We had known about the company, going back to when we were all at Pentadyne, and in 2007 we entered into a license from the group of people who had acquired those designs.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

socalTECH

We're really excited about 2009. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. We saw a continuation of 2006 and 2007, where there were too many "me-too" players.